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As part of the conference, a lecture was given by Gorana Ljubičić, Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Institute for Physical Planning of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Public Institution (participant in the project) and presented the Application of the results of the PRI-MJER project in spatial planning.

More about the final conference is available on the website of the Croatian Chamber of Architects.

Activities to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on the coastal area of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (PGC) were started in 2020 with the implementation of the Analysis of Vulnerability of the Coastal Area of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County due to rising sea level project by the Institute for Physical Planning of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka. As part of the first phase of the project, a primary assessment of the vulnerability of the entire coastal area of PGC was carried out. Based on the results of the primary vulnerability assessment, four particularly vulnerable settlements were singled out: Cres, Rab, Punat and Volosko, which were analysed in more detail in the second phase of the project entitled Analysis of the threat of coastal flooding of vulnerable settlements in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

The aforementioned project developed a methodology that enabled the implemen...

In the same way, the Open Days event aims to help in the future focusing of students regarding the choice of a possible profession, as well as their awareness of the future role of responsible citizens and active stakeholders in physical planning.

The participants of the Open Doors event were received by the director of the Institute, Adam Butigan, together with his colleagues. 

Through thematically focused educational presentations about spatial planning, the Institute’s experts brought the work of spatial planning closer to the students, and pointed out the importance and benefits of planning for the purpose of sustainable spatial management. In addition to this, they explained the possibilities and elaborated upon the needs for active public participation in planning, as well as the important role of a whole range of professions in spatial planning. The students found out about the types of infrastructure and the importance of its planning, as well as about d...

Deputy Prefect of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Mr Petar Mamula received representatives of the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Zagreb (Prof Snježana Mihalić Arbanas PhD, project manager), the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Rijeka (Prof Željko Arbanas PhD, researcher in the project) and Institute for Physical Planning of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County public institution as participants in the project (director Mr Adam Butigan and leading spatial planner Goran Ljubičić, Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering).

At the meeting, the results of the PRI-MJER project Applied research of landslides for the development of measures of mitigation and prevention of risks, financed by EU funds under the Climate Change Adaptation Scheme (2020 – 2023) were presented.
At the press conference, Prof Snježana Mihalić Arbanas and Prof Željko Arbanas PhD announced the formal presentation of the results of the research on...

On Friday 28th April 2023, the 28th working meeting of the County Institutes of Public Health, County Administrative Departments and Institutes for Environmental Protection, Physical Planning, Construction, Communal Services, Sustainable Development and Maritime Affairs of the Adriatic Region was held about the quality of the sea for bathing in the Republic of Croatia in 2022.

At the working meeting, representatives of all the Adriatic counties presented the results of sea quality tests on the beaches in their counties for 2022.Beside the reporting, the topics of this year's meeting were proposals for changes to the Regulation about the quality of the sea for bathing, the status of the database on the quality of the sea and bathing water in the Republic of Croatia, the influen...